JUNE 27, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Biometric identification has become part of everyday life. We've got facial recognition in airports, cars that can be unlocked just by looking at them, technology that detects a person's unique way of walking, and of course the ubiquitous fingerprint, used for everything from smart phones to event ticketing. Next on the agenda? Your heartbeat.
As...
JUNE 27, 2019
OSAKA, Japan – President Donald Trump began a series of G-20 meetings Thursday by praising U.S. allies generally and criticizing others over various economic and defense policies.
"We've been very good to our allies – we work with our allies, we take care of our allies," Trump said before a working dinner with Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison, his first stop after landing...
JUNE 27, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Trump administration is reportedly seeking to scale back a program that protects undocumented family members of active-duty U.S. service members.
Attorneys familiar with the plans told NPR that the parole in place program, which gives protection to such family members in one-year increments, would only be available in rare circumstances if the plan to...
JUNE 26, 2019
LONDON - During a visit today to akt (Albert Kennedy Trust), a charity that helps young and homeless LBGTQ people, Prince William said it would be “absolutely fine” with him one of his children identified as LGBTQ.
The Duke of Cambridge — who is father to Prince George, 5, Princess Charlotte, 4, and Prince Louis, one — spoke when he officially...
JUNE 26, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Pakistan 241 for 4 (Babar 101*, Sohail 68) beat New Zealand 237 for 6 (Neesham 97*, de Grandhomme 64, Shaheen Afridi 3-28) by six wickets
Pakistan’s Babar Azam celebrates after scoring a century. - AFP/Getty Images
EDGBASTON, ENGLAND - Pakistan are making a late surge in the direction of the World Cup’s semi-final spots, with the...
JUNE 26, 2019
FILE PHOTO: The Wider Image: Deadly crossing ends American dream for Guatemalan migrant - Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill approved a day earlier by the House of Representatives that would have provided $4.5 billion to address a surge in migration at the U.S. border with Mexico, while setting new...
JUNE 25, 2019
U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds flowers he received on arrival to New Delhi, next to U.S. Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster, as Pompeo arrives in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 25, 2019, from Afghanistan. (AP photo)
NEW DELHI - India believes it meets the criteria for a waiver from US sanctions on the $5.2-billion deal with...
JUNE 25, 2019
Brief Scorecard: Australia 285 for 7 (Finch 100, Warner 53, Woakes 2-46) beat England 221 (Stokes 89, Behrendorff 5-44, Starc 4-43) by 64 runs
LONDON, ENGLAND - Australia played Test match cricket in miniature to get the better of England and a set of conditions at Lord's that were not really in the blueprint for Eoin Morgan's side...
JUNE 25, 2019
Lior Div, chief executive of U.S.-Israeli cyber security firm Cybereason, speaks during Cyber Week conference in Tel Aviv, Israel. - Corinna Kern / REUTERS
An ambitious group of state-backed hackers has been burrowing into telecommunications companies in order to spy on high-profile targets across the world, a U.S. cybersecurity firm said in a report published Tuesday.
Boston-based Cybereason...
JUNE 25, 2019
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday treated the Congress as his punching bag in the Lok Sabha during his reply to a discussion in Lok Sabha, rebutting criticism that his government had attempted to corner credit for India’s development and belittled his predecessors.
“I may be the only prime minister to have said, from...
